μαίνη

Ancient Greek

Etymology

No etymology. The connection with Russian мен (men, “burbot”), Lithuanian ménkė (“haddock”) and Sanskrit मीन (mīna, “Pisces; sprat”) is extremely doubtful. Strömberg hesitatingly attempts to connect it with μαίνομαι (maínomai, “to rage”), by interpreting it as the "wild raging fish".

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /mǎi̯.nɛː/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ne̝/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛ.ni/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ni/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ˈme.ni/

Noun

μαίνη • (maínē) f (genitive μαίνης); first declension

blotched picarel (Spicara maena)

Inflection

First declension of ἡ μαίνη; τῆς μαίνης (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ μαίνη hē maínē	τὼ μαίνᾱ tṑ maínā	αἱ μαῖναι hai maînai
Genitive	τῆς μαίνης tês maínēs	τοῖν μαίναιν toîn maínain	τῶν μαινῶν tôn mainôn
Dative	τῇ μαίνῃ têi maínēi	τοῖν μαίναιν toîn maínain	ταῖς μαίναις taîs maínais
Accusative	τὴν μαίνην tḕn maínēn	τὼ μαίνᾱ tṑ maínā	τᾱ̀ς μαίνᾱς tā̀s maínās
Vocative	μαίνη maínē	μαίνᾱ maínā	μαῖναι maînai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Derived terms

μαινίδιον (mainídion)
μαινίς (mainís)
μαινομένη (mainoménē)

Descendants

→ Latin: maena

References

“μαίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“μαίνη”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
μαίνη in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN